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Be My Baby Tonight · John Michael Montgomery

Be My Baby Tonight · John Michael Montgomery
EXERCISE 16 OF 29
Groove L -- Part L
94 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART C
PART L
PART C
6 groovesBCLHG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Be My Baby Tonight on drums

105 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-34, toms through bars 35-37, hi-hat through bars 38-70, toms through bars 71-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-75, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-21 and 23, and 21 more places -- 51.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Be My Baby Tonight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 71, 72, 73, 83, 96, 97 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 22-39 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 67-76 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 74-101 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Be My Baby Tonight?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Be My Baby Tonight hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Be My Baby Tonight?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 71, 72, 73, 83, 96, 97 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED